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Delicious Deli
Universal Music in Japan is charting new territory by starting a new label for Japanese artists. The new label will be called Delicious Deli Records and will start operations in January of ’09. The label will originate under Universal International but will really seek to build domestic Japanese artists. Universal has 5 other labels within [...]
Music Biz Sales #’s
Sony BMG just released sales numbers for the quarter that ended on Sept. 30th. They aren’t good. Sony lost $57 million on sales of $762 million. Losses a year ago during the same period were $8 million on $851 million in sales. Sony corp blamed the losses on “the continued decline in the worldwide physical [...]
IODA & MySpace Music
IODA has just signed a deal with MySpace Music to offer their catalog of independent artists to MySpace’s new music platform. This is a big step, and one that should assuage those complaining that MySpace music just caters to the major labels. IODA is the Independent Online Distribution Alliance and is basically a marketing and [...]
EMI’s Decrescendo
EMI, one of the big 4 record labels, continues to struggle. Last year, they controlled 10% of the recorded music market, and that is now down to 9.5% this year. They also just released numbers showing a loss of US$1.2 Billion for year ending March 31. At least they were blunt about the cause – [...]
Major Labels
Over this past weekend, I had a conversation with a friend of mine about the music industry. I was talking about the way that some of the big name artists were moving away from the major labels to companies like Live Nation that offered ’360 deals’ and touring venues throughout the world. I described how [...]
Universal’s CEO Interview
The Chairman & CEO of Universal Music Group, Doug Morris, recently gave an interview with Billboard. It is a fascinating interview that really shows the point of view of the labels. I know in my blog, I often rag on the labels, but reading this interview really helped me see that though they may be [...]
Muxtape Farwell
Muxtape founder, Justin Ouellette, has posted a blog entry on the main page of the Muxtape website. Muxtape as we know it is no more. It was shut down by Amazon (who hosted the site) after receiving threatening letters from the RIAA (Recording Industry Association of America). Muxtape had a simple premise – allow users [...]
Milian MySpace
MySpace Records has just signed Christina Milian to a new deal. Milian had currently been with Def Jam, who unceremoniously dropped her before her 3rd album was to release due to slow sales potential. MySpace Records is a record label that started in 2006 within MySpace. I would guess that with the advent of the [...]
We7 & the Labels
We7 (we7.com) just signed a deal with Warner Music to be able to stream Warner’s entire catalog on their site. We7 is a free service that plays ad-supported streaming music. Ads are targeted based upon location, age, & gender. All you do is type in the artist, album, or track you would like to hear [...]
Warner Music Group
Warner Music posted another loss. I’m sorry, I know this is not very original. A record company has gone another quarter at a loss. If you scroll down and read the blog about Live Nation, you will read about someone out there making money. Here are some of Warner’s loss highlights: Warner Music lost $9 [...]
